reporter: tonight, a new cause for alarm across this country in the race between the vaccine and the variants. doctors inside beaumont hospital in michigan say they re facing a surge all over again. just a steep incline in the numbers of patients that are coming in who are really sick. we ve got patients who are holding in the emergency room waiting for beds to open up. reporter: as many as 70% of the new cases in michigan could be from the more contagious and likely more deadly uk variant. we re seeing a lot more younger adults, middle aged adults being affected, getting sick and coming in. reporter: pedro gonzalez was a healthy 28-year-old before covid. one of his passions was highlighting small businesses trying to make it through the pandemic. just getting that big satisfaction out of knowing that you were able to help somebody in need. reporter: but in march, pedro tested positive for covid. he s been on a ventilator for two and a half weeks. i thought he was going
great place. they suture, you re out quick. you don t have a long waiting list et cetera. you only want to go to the emergency room if you have serious stuff, heart attack, chest pain, stroke. for major problems. there is a trick i will tell you. when you go to the emergency room we ll find out within 30 seconds whether you re really sick or not and if you re not you re going to be sitting there for five hours. how do you know where 30 seconds? we look at e.k.g., symptoms. if it s a real chest pain you re going to come in immediately. if it s a bruise you re not at the top of the list. there s something called triage and we ll decide who needs to go in or not. advice for you during this time of the year where we have so many accidents, et cetera, use urgent care for simple things. if you want a z pack there is no reason for you to be in the emergency room waiting for hours and hours. then you end up going home with a new cold, new bacteria and infection.
coast. new advisory at 8:00 o clock. we ll be sure to bring you the very latest from the fox news extreme weather. they had all those local economies that depend on these tourism dollars will be happy about that. thanks. as the v.a. touts improved access for veterans, a disturbing new story at the albuquerque v.a. officials confirming one veteran died just feet from the emergency room waiting for an ambulance. he collapsed in the hospital cafeteria just 500 yards from the e.r. it took 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive to take him from one building to the other, which is just about a five-minute walk. and imagine driving down the road when all of a sudden, your car fall noose a sinkhole. that s what happened to one woman and her son in rural illinois. heavy rains opened a massive sinkhole right in the middle of the rideway, causing her car to plummet inside. she frantically called 911. i m underneath the ground. you re underneath the ground at this time? yeah. we have
they are coming here as a belief as they get across the border, they can probably stay, and heather. they may be right about that. we ll see. thank you, doug. in another news the va out tos improved access for veterans. a disturbing new reports. did you hear about this? out of al of albuquerque. one veteran died feet away from the emergency room waiting for an balan ambulance. it took 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive from one building to another. which is a five minute walk. a gop candidate facing a disturbing case of racial discrimination is speaking out. she s running for congress in central florida. she tweeted the picture of the vandalized campaign sign. her face was covered in white
from an emergency room waiting for an ambulance. he collapsed in the hospital cafeteria 500 yards from the e.r. it took 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive to take him from one building to the other which is about a five-minute walk. a glak g.o.p. candidate facing a disturbing case of racial discrimination speaking out for the first time. gloreathea scurry-smith is running for congress in central florida. she tweeted this picture of a vandalized campaign sign in jacksonville. her face was spray painted white. this one incident [inaudible] whoever was behind this, intentions, whatever their motives were i can t control. what i can control is this campaign. our campaign is not about race. it s about the issues. she says she is not concerned with pointing fingers and is eager to move on. the work of a ranch family threatened by a